Tag: privacy
Zooming in on Student Surveillance: Protecting Student Privacy in the Age of COVID-19
(Source) Exams are stressful even under the best of conditions. Exams taken virtually, as so many students over this previous year have found out, have presented a brand new set of challenges that can magnify student stress. But, imagine for a moment that you cannot even get into your exam, because the exam software does…
2 Apr 2021
“Smile! You’re on Camera” – The Implications of the Use of Facial Recognition Technology
(Source) What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase ‘facial recognition technology’? Is it a TV show or movie scene where law enforcement is staring at computer monitors as faces in a database cycle through as a software program looks for a match to an image of a suspect,…
1 May 2020
Facial Recognition Software, Race, Gender Bias, and Policing
(Source) Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) identifies a person’s face by navigating through computer programs that access thousands of cameras worldwide to identify a suspect, criminal or fugitive. FRT could even accurately identify a person’s from a blurry captured image or instantaneously identify the subject among a crowd. This is the fantasy portrayed in Hollywood…
11 Apr 2020
Do Not Access – Is Law Enforcement Access to Commercial DNA Databases a Substantial Privacy Concern?
(Source) The use of forensic genetic genealogy (FGG) as an investigative tool for law enforcement has become, “if not exactly routine, very much normalized.” The normalization is in large part due to law enforcement’s use of FGG to identify and arrest the Golden State Killer. The April 2018 arrest gained national recognition, and subsequently, so…
3 Mar 2020
Arrested? The Government Wants Your DNA.
Dorota Poplawska balances the pursuit of justice against privacy interests in electronic DNA databases.
11 Apr 2012
Their First College Exam Was a Drug Test
When one Missouri college decided to institute a mandatory drug testing policy, students responded with a class-action lawsuit. Puja Patel discusses.
6 Oct 2011